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Map

The Map is a canvas showing the physical layout of your garden. You place your assets — raised beds, grow bags, stalks — on the canvas, size and position them to match your actual garden, then use it to see what is growing where, plan what comes next, and keep the layout in sync with your real garden.

Three modes

A toggle at the top of the map switches between three ways of working:

  • View — see what is growing and log against a bed. The default.
  • Plan — design what goes where: spacing, how many fit, season timeline, and warnings.
  • Edit — change the layout itself: place, move, resize, rotate, and recolor assets.

Viewing the map

Open Map in the sidebar. The default View shows your garden layout with each asset labelled. Tap any asset to open a side panel showing its current plantings, their status, and quick links to each planting’s detail page.

Each bed shows how full it is. The occupancy bar sums each planting’s footprint against how many of that crop the bed holds, so an over-planted bed reads as over. In View you can also log straight against a bed — plant, water, add a task, or jot an observation — without leaving the map.

Season scrubber

A time slider sits at the bottom of the map in View and Plan. Drag it across the year and the beds repaint to show what is growing that week, read from each planting’s sow, transplant, and harvest dates. It starts on this week; tap Jump to today to return. Scrubbing only changes what you see — it never changes your data.

Planning a bed

Switch to Plan and select a bed. Pick a crop to see its advised spacing and, on the Advanced plan, how many fit and a density control — standard, tight, or loose. Plan mode also flags non-blocking warnings on a bed: spacing too tight, a bad companion pairing, or the same crop family planted here too many years running.

Season timeline and successions

On the Advanced plan, a selected bed shows a season timeline: each planting is a bar across the year, and the empty stretches between them are open slots. Tap an open slot to plan what follows — pick a crop and it saves as a planned planting that starts when the bed frees up and links to the crop it follows. The new planting shows up on the scrubber in its future window, so you can see your whole season fill in before you plant a thing.

Editing the layout

Tap Edit (pencil icon) to enter edit mode. In edit mode you can:

  • Place an asset — drag it from the panel onto the canvas
  • Move an asset — drag it to a new position
  • Resize — drag the corner handles to adjust width and length
  • Rotate — use the rotation handle to align it with your real garden orientation
  • Flip — mirror an asset horizontally or vertically if needed
  • Layer order — use Bring forward / Send back to control which assets sit on top when they overlap

Tap Save to commit your changes. The layout is stored with your garden and syncs across devices.

Canvas settings

You can adjust the canvas size to match the scale of your garden. Tap the canvas settings icon in the edit toolbar. Changing the canvas size does not move or resize any placed assets.

Global map (All gardens)

From the global view, the Map page shows a picker with one card per garden. Tap a card to open that garden’s map. A single merged-canvas view across all gardens is planned for a future release.

Tips

  • View and Plan let you log and plan against a bed; Edit only changes the layout. If you are trying to add a planting and the bed will not take it, check which mode you are in.
  • Position assets to match your real garden orientation if you can. It makes the visual useful when you are standing in the garden trying to remember what is in which bed.
  • Labels on the map match the asset name exactly. If an asset is not showing its label, check that the name in Assets matches what the map expects.